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Hehe, ISDN was the reason I started out on SuSE Linux. After a few years I tried installing Debian, but I managed to render the system unbootable trying to get
by krylon 10y ago
Hehe, ISDN was the reason I started out on SuSE Linux. After a few years I tried installing Debian, but I managed to render the system unbootable trying to get it to work.
Man, ISDN was a pain. But it was nice to be able to see a log of incoming (including missed) calls in the log file. ;-)
(By comparison, Wifi via NetworkManager has pretty much "justed worked" for me.)
- tehabe 10y agoI got ISDN to work in Debian Woody out of the box. I had a ISDN internet flatrate back than, which even included the 2nd B channel. 128 Kbit/s, for me that was huge in 2000.
- krylon 10y agoI was a bloody n00b back then, I had almost no clue what I was doing. A while later I managed to get a dial-on-demand-ISDN-router working using NetBSD, with NAT and all. That was a lot fun, and I learnt some things along the way. (It helped a lot that some friendly soul at the NetBD project had written a tutorial how to do exactly that.) Before ISDN, I had a 14.4kbit modem, so even single-channel ISDN at 64kbit was amazingly fast back then, to me. Dialing was faster with ISDN, but you did not get those cool sounds modems made. I still get nostalgia when I have to deal with fax devices and hear them screech. ;-)